The administration now mocks it as a «local project,» though delaying it risks severing the
rail link between Boston and Washington, D.C., at the midpoint of Amtrak's
busiest and only profitable
corridor.
Known as «America's Distribution Hub,» Memphis boasts the
busiest cargo airport in the United States, the fifth - largest inland port in the United States, five Class I railroads serving nine fully operational
rail yards, and one of the most widely traveled interstate
corridors in the country.